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The Citizen-Examiner from Hayneville, Alabama • 1

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mm on Hi ZEE VI i II II iSKGETlr Circulation in Lowndes county. the PEUWlfe people. tx subscription a year 'in VOL XX II I rw HAYNEVIIIE. THURSDAY, AUGUST 12 1909- NO. 3 rrrr-j 1 I 1 1 10 1 easy to keep flies and mosquitoes out but very hard to get get started.

Write for our Screen Door pamph list ox bash and you need. we will be glad to make 'delivered" price. THE KENNEDY CO MONTGOMERY, ALAMMA. 1 'It's Sash, Alabama lets or send ueaueu Doors, Blinds, Wall Paper, Mantels, Grates, Tile, Pajnts, Varnish, Brushes, Glass, Builder's Hardware, etc. Manufacturers of uut uiass, ocieeirgapi tarns, clc.

:9 them out after they FOR SAVINGS" MICHAEL CODY, JOS. NORWOOD, President, Vice-President, 1 i3 J. S. WINCHESTER, Cashier." 'Happenings We Give You Uni(iBa THE exchang; NATIONAL BANK Alabama. Undivided Profits $25,000.00 "THE BANK Montgomery, Capital Saving Bank- Trust Company--- Every convenience, every courtesy and every facility for the transaction of your banking business.

CAPITAL $300,000.00. SURPLUS 75,000,00. MICHAEL CODY, President. JOS. NORWOOD, Vice-President.

J. KIRK JACKSON, Cashier. it, and it was for this! purpose that they went to Kentucky and were suc cessful. It is said that the monument will soon be erected at the grave by the United States government. Increased Capital Stock.

W. C. Gray, Kupert Cox and B. F. Chambers, all of Beaumont, have become associated with J.

-S. Lehman and the other old stockholders of the Lehman Manufacturing Company, of Annas ton, and. the capi tal stock of this corporation has bsen Iniarsased to $40,000, every dollar ot which has been paid in. It is the purpose of the company to expand in tho line of its output, as well as to extend its Jbusiness-tlntq new territory. J.

S. Newspaper Men Return Home. Representatives of the morning pa-Pcts on the Southern circuit of the Associated Press, who held a business meeting in Birminghaim, have returned to their homes. Tha visitors were taken over the Birmingham dis trict in automobiles, and were entertained at dinner at the Bluff Park ho tel on Shades mountain. Hit by Baseball and is E.

J. Shied, who was struck in the temple with a while at the bat- during a game between Alexandria and Weatherdale, northwest of A niston, died of his Injuries without regaining consciousness. Artesian Water. William H. Zinn has a plan for solving the water question for Anniston by boring artesian wells and getting all the water that is needed.

He says the water can be had at a depth of not axceeding 500 feet. An imposing marble monument was unveiled at Jacksonville, former county seat and war scene, in honor of Confederals soldiers of Calhoun coun ty under the auspices of the General John F. Forney Chapter, U. D. C.

The statue represents a Confederate! sol-rest. The entire monument is 15 feet high, and names of a large number of fighters under General Forney are in scribed on the sides. 1 i "Your Opportunity" The Fourth National auu upuLo, oiling The Lid Is On In Tuscaloosa. At the last meeting pf. the Tuscaloosa city council aii ordinance was passed making it unlawful for certain businiess houses in Tuscaloosa to keep open toors'on Sunday for the purpose of doing Jayor de-cllped to'approve ftHglying -fourteen reasons for doing so, and was iaustain-ed at a meeting of the council held Thttrsday night.

The lid is now tight on everything except newspapers. 'Wyeth City Factory Burns. At midnight Thursday night the American basket? ifaotory at 1 Wyath City was consumed by flames, the engine room, only heisg fsavevl. But for the heroic work of" the men the entire city might have 'bsen destroyed. The fire is thougift ta originated from a hot tox.

loss is estimated at with no insurance. About lOOTECioyes are out.of -work. Alma Turner Identified Her Assailant. Alma Turner, the 15-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mr3.

Matt Turner, of Gadsden, who was, seven times two weeks ago, has identified Lee Clark, a mulait who' arrested the police, as 4r assailant. The negro is beipg held awaiting a final decision by Ure.pslice as to whether fcrfficlent eridenfto to convict can be coHeotedj Scoogins Killed by Falling Porch. JTM. Seoraina.tfHS killed and H. B.

"iZZ Z7Z lumber near Ragland Tuesday. Both men prominent that commu nity. Mr. Scoggins leaves awwow and two small children. Mr.

Ingram has a wife and five children. jry Cornerstone of New High School. Tbejj'Deopie 01 toe nonnarn pari, ui Dallas county wii on Friday celebrate the laying of the cornerstone of the new county high school, which was located at PJanitersirille, with a big barbjcueu Frederickson Freed. EdwarS Frederickson, the juror who served at the last criminal term of the Mobile ity court in the case of J. G.

with violation of tho prohibition law, and who was arrested ajid. tried for soliciting or attempting to obtain a bribe, has been released from the county jail after serving week, on account of a technicality inhe warrant. WIFE QF pOV. HOUSTON LAID TO REST BY HIM. Word has reached Birmingham of tire death at Athens of Mrs.

Elian Irvine Houston, widow of former Governor George S. Houston and mothiEir of Mrs. M. Drennen, of Birmingham. Mrs.

Houston had been residing of late years with Mrs. Drennran, and leftibou-two weeks ago to spend the rsmSiindeit of the summer at the old Shortly after she roached Athens she was stricken with what iproved to be her last illness. Mr. and Mrs. Drennen, Dr.

Drenmen and oth-ijirs, including trained hastened to the old home in Liiflestone county. Advanced age and feeble1 health for several yeans old on herand the end came peacefully. At taetliime of her death she was surrounded by many relatives and a host of friends. She was in her 70tti year. Probably no man occupies a more prominent place in the history of Alabama' than Governor Houstoi.

husband of the wo man who breathed heT last at Athens. Entering Congress in 1841, he served continuously, with the exception of one term, until Alabama" withdrew from the union. At one time he wa3 elected to the United States sanate, but was not allowed to take his seat. He served the state twice as governor Boost for Good Roads. Baton Rouge, La.

Governor Sanders was informed by the Great Northern railroad that it would haul free of charge all material to be used in th construction of publio highways In Louisiana. Following the inauguration of a good roads movement In Louisiana the state railroad commission recently empowered all railroads in the state to haul such material at reduced rates or without any charges at all. The Great Northern Is the first to respond to the commission's ruling. Zeppelin is Halted. Berlin Thousands of fear-striclccn spectators at Frankfort saw the dirigible balloon Zeppelin II.

start on tine long journey to Cologne, suddenly hidt at an altitude of 120 feet and tha swiftly descend, when the rear propeller broke in two pisces. Those who looked on thought the passengers would be dashed to death, but the big balloon floated safely to earth, where repairs wera commenced. The balloon was traveling at full speed when the accidnt took placo. of Alabama. Capital Stock, r.

Whooping Cough In Anniston." Out of 24 deaths in Anniston during the past two months, twelve oflhieSi have resulted directly or indirectly from whooping cough. This disease a more prevalent in Anniston thlf year than it has ever lieeni and there seems to toe no abatement in the lejiidemi which is raging in an unusually violent form. Knights Are Poisoned. Lieutenant John R. Coleman, of the Knight3 of Columbus Zouaves of St.

Louis; reported Friday that 15 mem-bars of the organization ihad suffered ptomaine poison from eating Ibeef. Two were stricken in the parade, and had to go in the Elks 'building for attention. Increase In Pig Iron. An increase of more than tons i3 shown in the pig iron production in Alabama for the' month of July, as compared to the output in June. The total production.

in July, authoritatively, is 104,775 tons, against 99,353 in June. The production in August will show a still 'better increase over the previous month. Threi furnaces have been started making iron already this month. HALF MILLION APPROPRIATION ill TO UNIVERSITY IS DOING GOOD. The opening of the Univerf iA i of Alabama in September will beginning of the Greater University.

Students ret mine will spe a wondsr- ful transformation ''about the and buildings. It has beon remarked that everything has been changed except the. historic -campus itsslf, which, perfect in its natural beauty, cannot be improved. The first fruits of the recent appropriation of a bait million dollars by the legislature will be realized wtoan the doors are opened thi3 fall. Comer Hall, the new engineering building, valued at over $100,000, and unequalled in the South, will be in good running order.

Smith Hall, w-hich is considered one of tb'3 handsomest college 'buildings in the South, and which will be devoted to the schools of biology and geology, will be completed. Woods. Hall, the military barracks of former days, will bi completely remodeled and ready for occupancy, with steam heat and all modern improvements. Thiei hydraulic laboratory constructed at a concrete dam on a branch near tha Warrior rivtr and equipped with complete apparatus, will be ready for use. A modern lighting system, operated by the university's own plant, will furnish current for all the univarsity build ings and the campus arc UgMs.

AJpew waterworks system with a steel tank of 80,000 gallons capacity will supply water from the university's own springs. Plans are being drawn for an acadieimic building will toe created this wintar, and other improvements are under way and projected that will restore the University of Alabama to its rightful heritage, and afford the youth of Alabama advantages that will duplicate theso offered at great expense at distant institutions. New Drinking Fountain. Sanitary drinking fountains are soon to be installed in tbs public schools of New Decatur by the city: and the School Improvement leagues! of New Decatur. The fountains are something new, but have been in itee in the larger cities of the North for some time.

It is a bubbling fountain, and no cup is used for drinking. It is said to be one of the most sanitary foun tains in use. 8 WOMAN GROUND UNDER WHEELS OF A TRAIN. Alias Fanny Chairman, of Brookside, Was run over by a freight train at that Station Wednesday afternoon about 4:30 o'clock. Her right leg and right arm were so badly crushed, by the wheels of fhe car that amputation was necessary.

The operations were performed at the private Infirmary of Dr. B. G. Copelaod in Birmingham, and Ithie patient is now reported to ibe doing well, with-good chances of recovery if no complications intervene. The accident was accompanied by a thrilling act of heroism on the part cf a little girl, who was mar at the time.

It is said that Miss Chapman was walking along the track after the train had arrived and while it was standing at the Brookside station. lA number of 'people were near and crowded about th depot. While Miss Chapman was still on the track a freight train 'bore down upon her, and ehe did not seem to hear it or realize her danger. A littl girl less than 10 years old saw the danger of Miss Chapman, and rushed to her rescue. The child screamed at tho doomed girl and tried to drag her from the tracks, out could not -make her understand, and when the train was all 'but upon thsm she sprang away, missing the wheels by a hair's and turned to see the girl she had tried so bard to save ground helplessly upon Ifche rails.

Bore for Gas. The Providence Oil and Gas Company, organized by Washington and Birmingham parties, i3 prospecting for oil and gas two miles tiast of Fayette on tho Southern railroad. They lepmmenced the first well on June 28, fend are now down to a depth of l.luu feet, having gone through four oil and two gas sands. The first oil sand was 25 leet land the second 60 feet, the third 40 feet and the fourth 20 feet thick. The two gas sands penetrated were close together at a depth of Bbout 700 feet from the' surface.

The gas, when lighted, three or four feet above tha derrick floor. The second and third sands were very Strongly impregnated, and experts pro. nounce them paying sands. The company proposes to go to a depth of 2,500 feet in order to exploit and determine the number of sands in the field and then to fxploit each sand separately at different locations 'n the field. They ihave in their emplojc 'the most expert Idrill man to be fouSho has experience in tha largest fields in the United States, and he reports that they are undoubtedly in one of the largest oil fields in the country.

They are operating the largest outfit made for oil and gas work, and propose to prove up a large discovery for the people of Fayette county. Left for Mobile. The Birmingham and Gulf Alabama river steamer City of Mobile reached the Selma wharf on her down trip to Mobile from Montgomery. The boat took on at Selma about 50 bales of compressed cotton for export, besides la large quantity of miscellaneous1 freights for way landings, as well as a good list of passengers, and continued on feer trip to Mobile. Negro Drowned.

George Walker, a negro, was drowned (head downward in a shallow Btream outside of Montgomery. He fell through a trestle and his foot caught, hanging him bead down in a shallow Stream, helpless to prevent death. He was found hanging in the manner noted. Dental Work, Expert Surplus and Profits The Fourth National Bank has the largest surplus and profits of any bank in this city. 8 We offer you every facility consistent with sound banking.

We allow interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum on Savings Accounts. We will appreciate yur business. OFFICERS: THOS. J. REYNOLDS, President.

H. HUBBARD, Vice-President. A. JOSHUA JONES, Cashier, Have your teeth repaired by some one who has done a lot of it there are reasons for it. Here In our office we do more dental work than probably an other twt Cental' tfficei In the State of Alabama, Persons come here from all over the state and from adjoining itates to have their total work Attended to.

We have difficult plate, crown and bridge work coming np every day, work th ordinary run of dentists may not come in contact with more than once or twice a year, Thus It Is that we are familiar with every phase of dentistry. We come In contact with it. We nave to do with it every working day. That is the reason Allrws 4 per cent, intereit on Saving! deposits and iiiues interest bearing certificates. A gale and convenient place for inactive fundi and aurplua Designed by law' to act ai adminis-i trator, executor, guardian, trustee and accept legal trust! of every kind.

oaeded after many' "years 'In tocating the grave 'of their grandfather, Col Jame3 C. Wilson', 'One of the signers of 'the Declaration of Independence. They located the grave near the banks of the Ohio rivei, in Livingston county, Kentucky The grave is marked by a mammoth 'poplar tree. Some years ago the United States government appropriated a sum for thi erection of a suitable jnonument over the grave of Colonel Wilson, but when an effort was made to locate the grave no trace or It could be found, by the parties who went in asarch of it. The Hutson brothers were iborn and reared in Kentucky near where the grave of their noted grandfather A number of years ago theiyhad.the grave pointed out to' them, and they were confident they would be able to find 7 North Court Bank good work, and do so much ot it.

Of all the dozens of patients who are in our office every day, coming from far anl wide, during the entire five years we have been here, we have never had a single complaint. VVe are willing to stand or fall upon their recommendations unreservedly. 1 Write us concerning what you need to have done. We can tell you tDout ouf scale of prices about how long it will take to do the work, and many other little things might waqt to know. But in all cases, when you have dedcided to have lis do the work write and maKe an engagement at least four days ahead.

There ii neer a time when we are not engaged ahead at least from three to four days. during the 'early part of the reconstruction days, and during his second ibrrm the present constitution of Alabama was adopted. While he was in he was ably assisted by his wife, who was highly accomplished. Prior to her marriage Mrs. Houston was a Miss Irvine, and in addition to daughter, she is survived by a number of step-children.

Among them might be menitioned George Houston, Belle Mima; John P. Houston, attorney for the Louisville and Nashville railroad at Memphis, and Miss Ellen Houston, of A'ttoens: Wilson's Grave is Finally Located. P. R. Butson, of New Decatur, and his brother, Attorney Melvtn Hutson, of Cullman, have just returned from a trip to Kentucky, where they sue- Montgomery: Dent U.

JUJUrATttlUK, r. l.v.i in a nutshell why we do such Parlors; t4 jt 4 4 ,4 Txr ERY LOAN 7 Court Street. "There you can purchase JewelryDiamonds, Watches and. Goods at reduced prices. Being engaged in the ban business, we lare a position to hold of bargains in Diamonds, Watches, -Shot Guns, Bicycles, Typewriters, In addition above described articles, we-handle a full line of Ammunition to fit any- gurvor UK.

A. Long Dutaoo Street, Montgomery, Base" Ball Goods ot Spalding and otner oranas, ittcycies new auu becunu-iianu. ai for "the i celebrated Rambler Bicycle. rr 'rxir pi! fWTol-w PnrVf TTmvpcf Plavmer, Cards, roker VV OllVCI WtllC, UUl VJiaoo, VIUUIVO, AipimiS; Auvrnv i-rrsr -j vV.i. II i a uiceuog sonars, uicycie.

supplies ulucj. pvvcu.j "nr i lend money on Watches, Shot Guns and Revolvers. We buy old gold and silver. Mail rB -orders will receive prompt attention. By all means remember; cim'o MnMtr.nMFPY I OAN OO: u.i ill ii tSfj mm jihiVimmTm 7 I i nnnn nnioiMAi I TUDH IU.

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